I'm reading a book.

I started reading a book. It's called The Importance of Being Foolish: How to Think Like Jesus, by Brennan Manning. It's been good so far. Brennan has all sorts of deep thoughts and has some really good ideas. As I read through it, I'm planning on sharing some quotes that have caught my eye. This first one is about truth. He opens the book talking about how disconcerting it was to see an angry saviour in the temple, clearing out the money-changers.

What is even more disconcerting is Jesus' relentless passion for the truth. In our society, where money, power, and pleasure are the name of the game, the body of truth is bleeding from a thousand wounds. Many of us have been lying to ourselves for so long that our comforting illusions and rationalizations have assumed a patina of truth; we clutch them to our hearts the way a child clutches a favorite teddy bear.